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The Peter Principle in action for psychopaths.

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Are the professors afraid to research their colleagues? Ha!

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And themselves, yes! I had the same thought.

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Have there been studies of psychopathy in academia? I've witnessed and have heard many tales of professors who seem to exhibit the dark triad traits.

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Doesn't look like there has been much research on this. Here's what I could find:

https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1266485.pdf

This one is on students:

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0238141

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Thanks. I'm gonna read now.

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"When false personality is active, essence becomes passive. When Essence is active, false personality becomes passive". This is true within self, within societal interactions and within the wider field. It explains how Gurdjieff and his pupils survived Nazi-occupied Paris. "The devil hates self-remembering worse than incense".

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